Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, where no resident has the vote, are gathered the men whose job is to divine what the voter is thinking. Their service and their livelihood depend upon it. Cut off as they are from the front porches and backyards of the U.S., they have developed highly sensitive antennae to read the public's mind from afar. Last week the White House listeners heard, or thought they could hear, a solid concurrence in President Truman's calm-and-steady policy of unappeasing firmness toward Russia. But there were other sounds...
Emphasizing the need for lobbying today, MacDonald defined a lobbyist as "a special pleader." "A lobbyist," he said, "becomes one of the most important men around a legislative hall, because the legislators depend on him for accurate information on the question in which he is interested...
Future British foreign policy will depend little on which party is in power. Though Winston Churchill, the Conservative leader, is a strong backer of a European political union, he would probably be no more amenable to integrating Britain's economy with that of the rest of Western Europe than is the present cabinet. The only point on which the Tories have seriously attacked Ernest Bevin's foreign policy is the granting of independence to India and Burma, which could hardly be revised...
...Dartmouth all offer this much to prospective athletes. Harvard, apparently, wants nothing to do with official job guarantees to its football players. Such a plan involving no more than 50 men would probably hit stonewall resistance--but help for athletes in the form of honest jobs need not depend on favoritism of any sort...
...power of a bomb will depend not only on its size, but on its efficiency, which cannot be determined until at least one test bomb has exploded. There may be a limit beyond which it would not pay to add reactive materials. Very large bombs might burn as nuclear bonfires, wasting much of their effect upon space...